St. George's Circus

St. George's Circus is a road junction in Southwark, London. It was built in 1771 as the first purpose-built traffic junction in the city, and it featured an obelisk designed by Robert Mylne, the architect of Blackfriars Bridge. The obelisk was relocated to the Imperial War Museum in 1905 to make way for a clock tower, but the residence saw the clock tower as a nuisance to traffic, leading to its demolition in the 1930s. In the late 1990s, the obelisk finally returned to the circus.